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“‘Like a dog!' he said; it was as if the shame was to outlive him.

“Logic is unshakeable, but it cannot prevail against a man who wishes to live.”

“Who was he? A friend? A good man? Someone who cared? Someone who wanted to help? Was it one man? Was it all men? Was there still help?
Were there objections that had been overlooked? Cettainly there were some.”

“No, we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary?”
“A dismal thought”, said K., "it makes untruth into a universal principle.”

“You must take account of the fact that the delusion the doorkeeper suffers from does him no harm, whereas it harms the man enormously.”

“Above all, a free man is superior to a man in service.”

“You must not pay too much attention to opinions.”

“Truly to understand something and to misunderstand the same thing are not entirely mutually exclusive.”

"What is it you want to know now? You are insatiable."
"Everyone aspires to the law, so how is it that in all these years no one except me has demanded admittance?"
"No one else could be admitted here; this door was meant only for you. Now I am going to shut it."

“He thought how freely he used to give his name; for some time now it had been a burden to him.”